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At the end of the day, the Kindle Fire HDX offers the best raw hardware performance. Not every title on Amazon Prime is eligible for downloading, and many of the films currently available are older, lesser known ones.īuy the Kindle if you love Amazon, but other Android tablets are better. Still, this is a feature with more potential than current value. Amazon Prime subscribers not only have access to free movies and TV shows, but can also download select films for offline viewing. There are perks to owning an Amazon-made device. That's a shame, because graphics benchmarks show the Kindle Fire HDX to be on par with serious, hardcore portable gaming devices like Nvidia's Shield. Many of the Angry Birds-esque usual suspects are present, but those more serious about games will find better luck on a proper Android device, and the best luck on an iPad. Related: The Nexus 7 is the best Android tablet If you're looking for the latest and greatest mobile games, this also is not the device for you. Books, albums and movies you've acquired from Amazon are presented in the same manner as the apps themselves, further emphasizing Amazon's desire for its users to consume media. Instead, the Kindle Fire HDX, like the Kindle Fire devices before it, is committed to keeping you locked into its own universe. That diminishes the benefits to owning an Android-based device. And Google's own apps, such as Gmail, Chrome, Maps, YouTube, Hangouts and Drive, are all absent. But others, like Netflix and Dropbox, are nowhere to be found. The Kindle also has its own App Store, which is completely separate from Google's.Ī lot of the major apps and games - Yelp, Spotify, Hulu Plus, Temple Run, Madden - can be found in the Kindle App store. This is most noticeable in the OS interface. It is not simply slapping a skin on top of Google's OS, but using it as a foundation to turn it into an entirely different beast. But the Kindle Fire HDX also runs a custom version of Android. Kindle Fire HDX lacks some of the top apps.

That makes it less likely for it to fly out of your hand unexpectedly. And the stripe of glossy plastic that spans one of the tablet's sides also provides a little extra grip against your palm. That works to good effect.Ĭompared to the Nexus 7, the wider side bezels make the tablet more comfortable to use with one hand while reading, as there's room for your thumb to sit on the device without covering the screen. But it does forgo the gracefully curved lines many tablets adopt for their shells, and instead opts for a harder, faceted look. On the design front, the combination of glass and black plastic on Amazon's new tablet isn't breaking any new ground.

Related: Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite is the best e-reader everīut there's still little perceivable difference between the two devices when it comes to general use.